Slave trade history

• How many people were taken to the americas in the transatlantic slave trade?


  Approximately 12.5 million Africans.
• What was the journey from Africa to America called for the slaves


  The middle passage
• What was west Africa like before the slave trade?

  Very developed and rich
• The main west African empires before slave trade were Mali, benin, Songhai empire, and the asante empire
• which West African port city sent over 1 million enslaved people over to the americas


  Ouidah
• Which was the first main European country to start taking slaves

  Portugal
• What were the most grown crops in the americas during the slave trade


  Sugar cane, coffee and tobacco
• What were conditions like for slaves in the middle passage?


  very cramped, hot and starving as they were underfed
• What was it like for slaves on a plantation

  Bad
• What were the punishments for the slaves on plantations

  Beatings
• Who were the main abolitionists?

  Oloudah equiano, Mary prince, William wilberfoand Thomas clarkson
• When was it made illegal to buy and sell slaves

  1807
• When was it illegal to own a slave

  1833
• What 4 main reasons was slavery abolished

  Economic, moral, rebellions and political